11 year old challenges Secretary of Interior Ken Salazaar

As a follow up on my previous posting from The Cloud Foundation about Secretary of Interior Ken Salazaar threatening to ‘punch out’ a reporter at a new conference in Colorado recently, I recieved this letter in my Inbox. I thought it was well worth passing on, as anyone who is interested should join this girl and sign her petition.

I saw the recent Hoofbeats coverage of Interior Secretary Salazar’s threat to “punch out” a reporter covering the government’s wild horse program. If you’re continuing to follow the story, I thought you might be interested in the 11-year-old who is leading a campaign on Change.org asking Sec. Salazar to answer for recent controversies around wild horses, including the sale of animals to Tom Davis, a prominent supporter of horse slaughter.

Robin Warren, a 6th grader from Las Vegas, started the petition on Change.org with her mom after reading the expose on the government selling horses to Tom Davis in bulk. The article had been written by Dave Philipps, the reporter who was threatened last week by Salazar when he confronted the Secretary about Davis.

“It took the Bureau of Land Management a long time before they said they could be wrong about Tom Davis, but Salazar said he was wrong about the reporter basically overnight. I think he’s only sorry because he got caught!”

Robin’s mom, Denise DeLucia, also raised concerns about Sec. Salazar’s reaction: “I was concerned by Salazar’s reaction to someone else raising awareness on the same issue my daughter cares so much about. What if it had been Robin and me there presenting signatures from her petition supporters?”

Robin and Denise added that Salazar should follow up his apology by taking the issues raised about the wild horse program seriously.

You can see Robin’s campaign here: http://www.change.org/petitions/save-wild-horses-from-slaughter

If you’d like an interview with Robin or her mom, let me know!

Stephanie Feldstein
Senior Campaigner, Change.org “

Apology letter Ken Salazar sent to Dave Phillips after Salazar threatened to punch him. The silver lining of this political faux pas is it's brought more atten tion & increased public awareness to the plight of our wild horses. Salazar's time as Secretary of the Interior is coming to an end - the sooner the better.

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I feel Ken Salazar needs to step down as Secretary of interior. He has caused millions in tax spending for his own personal gains . And the abuse our wild horses have suffered at his hands. Its time for new management in this field.

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It’s just a small sympton of the whole attitude of politics these days. Really not much different from the feudal lord days of old. For a brief, shining moment in the 20th Century we appeared to be close to true democracy. But that said, we have come a long way in our evolvement in freedom and poverty. Actions like this is all just part of the nature of man and mankind, has been for millinia, and probably always will be.

I reviewing this discussion I wonder why Secretary Salazar was so defensive about the wild horses and Tom Davis? He should step down because of the Gulf oil explosion and BP oil disaster!! Its seems like this has damaged the eco system for centuries to come. I do think he should step down!!